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the week is going to sting ties and advancing trade as the u.s. vice president met russia's leaders and opposition here in school. next starting a special report we meet some american and british soldiers who've served in iraq and have all complained about depleted uranium related illnesses they accuse both the pentagon and the british ministry of defense of a coverup. i am the scenes. of the fall to mr and i'm out walking children's the snow. i'm not sure i remember each and every one i was always tired headaches will never go away what's very sensitive to the lights from oz and what the pain was just unbelievable that we will lead up like you know like fetuses in the bed in case. i do have a. friend i made sure he desires i there no we've lost all desire is gone i'm

not as active as they used to be you know this bears some talk about their. feelings just vocal surely i mean some bosses niggling pains noone again for a sort of position to being in pain all the same as the tumor was caused by the depleted uranium that was acquitted of the truth. with prison offers they keep bringing up the issue that is not really. it's there bring something else all you're getting all the guy or. girl words and they just tell you any lies to cover up the you wish.

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hector vega leopold dina's husband lives in the bronx in new york city he was sent to iraq in two thousand and three it was a sergeant and have been serving in a national guard unit for over twenty years in iraq he became a military policeman he never saw a lot of combat. if this is. an error akki soldier is. everything to go off just for a few months after being in iraq started feeling ill suffering from intense migraine headaches and muscular pain he was declared unfit for service was discharged and he returned home the piece still suffers from severe headaches fatigue and pain for months the origin of his symptoms was a mystery he had some medical tests the results where he had been poisoned by depleted uranium a radioactive material that had been used in the war. more

of damage off has been arrested about fifty times it's always for the same reasons and he's about to do it again on this bitter cold morning in minnesota he's protesting for what he sees as a just cause he has fought many such peaceful battles in his lifetime he's even won some. i was a mama sax. an assault. freedom rides. like speed line. was being. harassed. and i wait until later we were. on prime the most obese day present and

brought him maximum security. i was lying there we. as people were singing freedoms. now i was crying not because they were promising us but because they are now balloting. everybody. sighs. i'm going to do this just the time line and i'm gonna look for the feeling. i'll try motivates me. a line. about the three day argument and weapons. they may owe her a demon out in the showers.

anti-personnel land it gives her a noose her all its anger. now oh sure it was a. foolish thing every wednesday morning rain or shine for the past ten years more and a group of fellow pacifists demonstrate outside the headquarters of this local armament company they remind people that typically did you rain weapons were used in the war in arrests and that this company still manufactures the. depleted uranium ore dehumanisation have been the subject of heated debate because of the secondary effects they may have on the health of troops and civilians. because we want the change we want nuclear abolition way while we're against the weapons of mass destruction like depleted uranium for bombs their food and drug

administration ideally says we should not use any drugs unless it is better to play safe and they did test it well when they played if you're ready and we do it just the other there we go and use that as always i knowledge based scientists are saying yes that is. radio. plays a profit the. human issues were one of the most deadly and effective weapons in the first gulf war they are a kind of metallic arrow or bullet and are called penetrators they were launched by american tanks planes and helicopters and the result was that saddam hussein's armor was destroyed in

a matter of minutes. the penetrators are not explosives they are flesh ships or bullets like spindles of depleted uranium a very dense self igniting metal those characteristics and the enormous kinetic energy released by the penetrator on impact means you rounds cut through tank armor like a hot knife through butter fragments of burning d n a treat the crew compartment and incinerate everything in their path. but. a few weeks ago at this veterans hospital in illinois. a retired major in the united states army underwent an operation to remove cataracts from his eyes he's a veteran of both the first gulf war and the war in vietnam is very clear that you

are a magician would cause. damage so what do you sense of what i. want over the years to develop a cataract. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one when he was still in the army and after land combat in kuwait in a. roquet was appointed to research the effects of the depleted uranium munitions that had been used for the first time officially in that war his unit's job was to clean out american tanks equipped with you nish and it had been destroyed by friendly fire i started getting sick and our team started getting sick within twenty four hours forty eight hours the first thing that showed up was respiratory problems u.s. department of veteran affairs has formally diagnosed says react to bear when disease dude occupational exposure to depleted uranium in my case and so we developed the rash the rash of still would be a back that's rash right now is open and bleeding. like i started

dying and i wish i would real serious medical problems i could get medical care. or ok to part in a study commissioned by the pentagon on the after effects of depleted uranium munitions but what the study found was at odds with the official line and roky ended up becoming an anti d u activist. no i'm not a peacenik i'm a warrior awarded for finishing his job because as a person who was assigned a responsibility to clean up the mess he was assigned a responsibility to do the research he was assigned responsibility it right the army regulations which are formally adopted and absolutely required as you are sure who wrote the training programs i've learned and what i learned scared me. battlefields and fighting are ok took part in the production of this video it was

filmed in one thousand nine hundred five four years after the first gulf war to train soldiers presented it sends conflicting messages on the you in part one it points out the risks of toxic contamination of dust from these substances is swallowed or inhaled and it describes the hazards defending on how much depleted uranium is a nail swallowed or gets under the skin heavy metal poisoning may occur which can cause damage to internal organs and tissues. health effects of ionizing radiation depend on whether it is alpha beta or gamma and if the radioactive material is inside or outside the body alpha is the least penetrating but is the most hazardous if it does get into the body heavy metals bind to d.n.a. we know that for a long time and heavy metals cause cancer they probably cause it because of this binding to d.n.a. which disrupts the way the d.n.a.

can behave in the cell so. they're sensually d.n.a. damaging agents. maybe partially it is chemical and partially it is radiation then raj these effects are why the u.s. army recommends strong protective measures for their troops even though the film ends up minimizing the hazards of depleted uranium remember depleted uranium is not an immediate hazard. bottom line unless you're involved in a detonation or fire with depleted uranium as huge are relatively small. some units of the new york national guard were called up and sent to iraq after the invasion of two thousand and three gerard matthew went there with his unit their job was to

a scorched convoys. on the very much you came home after the war and he started having headaches for kids he's easily irritated by the slightest thing the kids may do he's changed a lot like you let me tell you something you've never had a headache that you have six seven headaches a day and if you translate almost fifty six. i mean it's really debilitating in the heavy foot you have so yes they're they're short spaced but they come and go. oh in another thing i get it bumps and skin. really here. ok here's a letter from. my finally a matthew got in touch with other veterans like hector vega who had similar symptoms and all to test to see if they had been poisoned by depleted uranium the results were surprise. he says. you

have forty times higher than other soldiers. which makes your being the person that has the highest level. you know i said maybe that's the reason why my daughter came up the way she did. the couple has a baby girl who was born with a birth defect on one hand her mother is convinced that it is on account of gerard's exposure to d.-u. . so yes i mean yeah i mean what i still feel deep down in my heart i know you know that she was like that even yesterday because of something he had about. one of us and we started looking for answers on the internet i mean for the reason i saw the baby i think i have the picture whose hand was identical to my daughter's when the money and iraqi baby had been exposed to depleted uranium so by me for me that's was the proof my baby's hand and the hands of that iraq you baby in fact schools by the figurine.

natural uranium is made up of two isotopes ninety nine percent is you renamed to thirty eight and point seven percent is the more radioactive uranium to thirty five . the nuclear industry uses isotopes separation to produce enriched uranium which contains a higher concentration of uranium to thirty five this enriched uranium is more radioactive the natural uranium and excused in the manufacture of atomic weapons depleted uranium is the byproduct of this process it is less radioactive but it still toxic and this is what's used to make anti-tank weapons. and do you weapons can also be made with you raney and already used by nuclear power plants but in the process it is contaminated with the highly radioactive elements generated inside nuclear reactors this is

a cheap way of getting rid of many tons of nuclear waste which otherwise would be very expensive to store safely. tucked in a barrel. the nuclear energy for rahm is saying when millions of millions of pounds own gain rid of your nuclear waste. put the weight space in the other so immoral no early is immoral. i believe it's italy of all. the music makers it's highly effective to fly straight it's highly lethal up on. getting a first shot one shot kill so taking it off the battlefield is not a but is not a neutral act. it's an act that will cause the loss of lives by taking away both

protection and the super bowl super weapon the pentagon is kind of oversold the importance of to put into writing them to defend the weapon exaggerated the importance of it. but it was actually guided missiles had particular hellfire missile destroyed about a third of all of the iraqi tanks that were destroyed. bernard roster held several positions in the pentagon during the clinton administration and he spent a number of years directing research into the so-called gulf war illnesses. that kinds of symptoms that are seen in people with gulf war illness are potently inconsistent with exposure to if we don't hear any and so they came to the conclusions as has the united nations the e.u. . almost everybody who has looked at those in an unbiased scientific way

that depleted uranium is not related to the unexplained illnesses that we saw in the first gulf war. thank. you. this is the center of amman the capital of jordan among the shoppers are all hourly and call off to iraqi cancer specialists today they are sightseeing but they have come to a month's take part in an on call article congress sponsored by a large american pharmaceutical company here they will find out about the latest treatments for cancer but they will not be able to use them in iraq. we are triple and we are looking to people dying with boat any help from us or from others

we could say we are crippled and owens are tied together because we haven't got the first cell it sees to treat our patients. both doctors work in bars where university hospital and they are taking part in a study funded by german universities to examine the soaring number of cancers in that iraqi province. was the only boy is one concern. is that it is late and is contaminated as mother and father the urine is contaminated depleted uranium as it is tested in joppa. of course we don't know whether the this which is down in japanese. we don't. bosnia was the iraqi province in which do you militias were most heavily used.

doctor or least says that radioactivity still lingers in many places he's convinced that this is what lies behind the increase in cancers some of which are very rare. cancers which are related to radiation. look him in his. eyes and soft tissue concern is. increased. to alarming number. but to kill early cancer cold and malignant fibrous is just sidetone which is close to related to the radiation. i got until now twenty five cases so is some something strange and it'd give us clues to the effect of radiation on our patients but we should prove it.

for. another conflict in which the pleated you raney and weapons were officially used was the war in kosovo in one nine hundred ninety nine. in reprisal for ethnic cleansing policies against albanian coasts of ours nato planes bombed serbian forces and yugoslav infrastructure. in that campaign serbian armored tanks and vehicles were attacked with the human issues. a few months later the media reported an unusually high rate of leukemia and other cancers in the european veterans who had served in kosovo talian french spanish and

others the term balkan syndrome was coined several organizations began to call for a ban on de u.s. . nato had to call a meeting of the atlantic council to appease its allies once again the message was contradictory they had knowledge of the risks but downplayed them. we are confident that there is little risk or do you munitions that we refuse to be complacent. the existing medical consensus is clear the hazard from depleted uranium is both very limited and limited to very specific circumstances but nature is doing everything it can to ensure that relevant information is made publicly available and will have encountered on experts have consistently denied that there is any cause and effect

relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome just pledged most nato authorities have agreed in the years since one nine hundred ninety nine no indications have been given as to whether or not any medical follow up has been done on the soldiers supposedly exposed to depleted uranium in kosovo and member states about the precautions to be taken when it comes to depleted uranium and the goal. we have not been able to see any indication of any medical problem from those who had the highest exposure who were in or on to be able it was struck with acquitted uranium convey about half the crew survived those hits after died and those that survived would not been able to see any medical problem now nine years later. and they had we know the highest exposures are depleted uranium and anyone who served in middle.

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